Interactive Multi-Touch

Technology for Enhancing

Early Literacy

Looi Kien Leong

Executive Chairman, 1001tech Group

+ Positive Outcomes

Language

Writing

LiteracyCognitive

Social-Emotional

Early Learners are

developmentally

ready to benefit from

ICT-enhanced

technology

ICT In Early Learning Education

McCarrick, K.,& L. Xiaoming. 2007. Buried Treasure : The Impact of Computer Use on Young Children’s Social, Cognitive, Language Development and Motivation. AACE Journal 15(1):73-95

A closer look at

Interactive Technology

Early Literacy As It Used To Be

OLD WAY,Static & Passive

Long process

Blackboard & Chalk Parents / Teachers / Kids Reading Books Out Loud

Early Literacy As It Used To Be

Newer,•Cumbersome

• Slow boot-up

•Mouse-based user-interface

Desktop / Laptop Computers

For Kids - Seeing is Believing!

Visual stimulus makes lessons easier to grasp

But…

Today, The Answer…

NOW,

PARADIGM

SHIFTDynamic &

Interactive

Interactive Multi-Touch Technology

Videos

Draw

Write

TypePictures

Rotate

Resize

Shapes

Use your fingers

From as young

as 2-years old

Enhancing Early Literacy

Interactive Multi-Touch Technology

Broadened Connectivity

Communicate

anytime,

anywhere across

the globe

Enhancing Early Literacy

Interactive Multi-Touch Technology

Large-screen shared experience

Enhancing Early Literacy

Interactive Multi-Touch Technology

Allows children to read synchronously Engages students as a group

Introducing the MONDOPAD

All-in-one integrated 55” interactive multi-touch screen & PC

User-friendly experiential learning – interactive whiteboard functions

Tele videoconferencing / distance learning capabilities

The Mondopad